1. Provide caption information for every photo that identifies
people in the photos and tells what they’re doing
and who took the photo.

2. Make sure your package is postmarked or your images emailed
no later than April 30, 2003.

3. Check closely to make sure your photos don’t show
violations of OSHA standards or unsafe work practices.

4. Identify people in the photo by full name and title.

5. Don’t send snapshots of people staring into the
camera. Candid photos are usually better.

6. Send only high-quality images: No Polaroids and no out-of-focus,
discolored, or torn images.

7. Don’t write on the back of your prints, because
this may damage the images. Also, avoid using staples and
paper clips on photos.

8. Protect your images. Use cardboard to reinforce your
package before you mail.

9. Send only high-resolution digital images as .jpg or .tif files.

10. Enclose signed permission to use the photo if it shows
a worker or worksite.

11. Provide your full name, title, and office and a phone
number where we can reach you for more information.

Deadline:
April 30, 2003

JSHQ
wants to portray federal, state, and consultation staff doing
their jobs. We’re planning our first-ever photo contest,
designed to showcase the work you do on a daily basis to help
protect workers.

Everyone in OSHA plays an important role in promoting workplace
safety and health, whether in a direct or support role, and we
hope to show as much variety as possible. Any photo of OSHA workers,
state staff, or consultation employees on the job qualifies—compliance
officers preparing for or conducting inspections, industrial hygienists
taking samples, trainers conducting safety classes, team leaders
conducting staff meetings, support staff taking phone calls from
the public, consultants conducting visits, compliance assistance
specialists holding outreach meetings, VPP staff conducting onsite
visits. The possibilities are endless.

What we don’t want are the classic “grip and grin”
shots, or images of people lined up in a row smiling at the camera.
We’ve all seen enough of those photos already! Candid photos,
or at least staged photos that look candid, work best.

Entries must be color prints or high-resolution digital images.
If you use a digital camera, the images must be very high resolution
(minimum is 5x7 at 300 dpi), the kind taken with a professional
digital camera. If your images can fit onto a floppy disk, they
are too low-resolution for the magazine. Also, if you can email
more than one digital image at a time, they’re too low-resolution.
Send digital photos as .jpeg or .tif files.

To enter, mail or email your submission with basic caption information
that tells the who, what, where, when, and why of what’s
going on in the photo. That basically means telling us who’s
in the photo, along with their title and office; what they’re
doing; where the photo was taken; and why the activity is important
to OSHA’s role of protecting workers. (Note: if the photo
features a workplace or workers, we’ll need signed permission
okaying the use of the images by OSHA.)

Winning photos will be published in JSHQ and used in a wide variety
of agency products such as publications and exhibits.

If you have any questions, contact the JSHQ editor, by phone at (202) 693-1999.